May 2009
48 posts
“Emotions, in my experience aren’t covered by single words. I don’t...”
– Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
From Amazon.com:
“I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.” And so begins Middlesex, the...
“Monotheism encouraged people to think in new ways. A monotheistic God not tied...”
– Leonard Shlain
“Could We Ever Know Each Other in the Slightest Without the Arts”
– gabrielle roy + 20 dolla bill y’all (via musicmademe)
Fuckyeahmywedding →
Where I go for inspiration…
To My Twenties By Kenneth Koch
How lucky that I ran into you When everything was possible For my legs and arms, and with hope in my heart And so happy to see any woman— O woman! O my twentieth year! Basking in you, you Oasis from both growing and decay Fantastic unheard of nine- or ten-year oasis A palm tree, hey! And then another And another—and water! I’m still very impressed by you. Whither,...
“Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
– Mark Twain (via quote-book) (via xyzprincess)
So I registered for classes this morning!! So pumped!!
I watched the clip below and though, “Hey that’s what I want to do!! A press secretary!! I want to know all the secrets of government and give evasive answers about them!!”
I was looking over the courses I had to take, and I wanted to take them all. I think that’s a really good sign.
Buy it, use it, break it, fix it, trash it, change it, mail - upgrade it, charge it, point it, zoom it, press it, snap it, work it, quick - erase it, write it, cut it, paste it, save it, load it, check it, quick - rewrite it, plug it, play it, burn it, rip it, drag it, drop it, zip - unzip it, lock it, fill it, call it, find it, view it, code it, jam - unlock it, surf it, scroll it, pose it, click...
jessb:
Creativity, Research and Funding in Canada “I am puzzled. Highly skilled artisans, artists, creators and designers are perhaps among the most sophisticated researchers our society produces. In order to succeed, they have to not only understand the context of their creative work, but also the impact and possible market for their ideas and objects. They have to develop sophisticated models...
“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”
– Pablo Picasso (via reluctantbuddha) (via xyzprincess)
You Are Going To Hell If You.... →
y00h00:
eat fruit from a tree less than five years old. [Lev. 19:23]
cross-breed animals. [Lev. 19:19]
grow two different plants in your garden. [Lev. 19:19]
wear a cotton-polyester blend T-Shirt. [Lev. 19:19]
read your horoscope. [Lev. 19:26]
consult a psychic. [Lev. 19:31]
cut your hair. [Lev. 19:27]
trim your beard. [Lev. 19:27]
are tatooed. [Lev. 19:28]
plant crops for more than...
Racy play courts controversy
You know theatre is getting racy when it starts sounding like something you’ve seen on HBO.
The conservative medium of the stage is shaken to the foundations in Bad Jazz by British playwright Robert Farquhar in what’s advertised as “a shockingly hilarious look at contemporary theatre.”
It’s the play’s Canadian premiere, directed...
Noise
rileydog:
Once, in a movie about making movies, I saw the fictional film crew do this thing that real film crews must do. They recorded the sound of silence in a room with people in it. They did this so that if as they were editing the movie they needed more silence in between the dialogue, they would have the sound of the silence in that room filled with those people. The sound of the quiet in...
“It’s about just the general sense of feeling like a fraud,” she said, “because I...”
– Annie Clark aka St. Vincent on the title of her album Actor in the NY Times. (via perpetua)
